[Enchante]

"Although Lockheed Martin does not make helicopters, the Navy chose it over longtime contractor Sikorsky Aircraft because the company's European partner had a three-engine model that seemed a logical off-the-shelf base for a new presidential helicopter. But modifying the EH101 has proven so complicated that the company is essentially building a new helicopter."

It sounds like we are paying for extensive development to create an entirely new helicopter, so of course the costs skyrocket and are averaged over only a small number of machines.

Maybe we should just have future Presidents use a VTOL version of the F-35!! :^) [cost per unit should be lower but where would we put the extra passengers?]

[a_chronic_whiner]

I’d rather we have the American heli wouldn’t you?

If it’s all the same.